Children killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza on first day of Eid

Norway will increase its funding of UNRWA and is sounding the alarm on the PA’s struggles in the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli army is setting up a division of retirement-age reservists due to “urgent need”.

Al Jazeera is reporting from outside of Israel because it has been banned by the Israeli government.

US special adviser Amos Hochstein has met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and is set to meet with Israeli minister Benny Gantz, who quit Netanyahu’s emergency government last week. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The meetings are part of what the White House says is an attempt to stop further escalation along the Blue Line, the unofficial border between Israel and Lebanon. There’s been a huge uptick in violence, fighting, and exchanges of rockets across that border in the last week or so.

The border is a political issue in Israel because about 60,000 people evacuated from towns and villages there since October. In the last 24 hours, an Israeli military spokesman said Hezbollah’s increasing aggression is bringing us to the brink of what could be a wider escalation.

Meanwhile, Netanyahu has disbanded the war cabinet that was formed as part of an emergency government in the days after October 7, essentially to give this idea of national unity as Israel launched its war on Gaza.

Gantz’s departure from the cabinet left Netanyahu exposed to demands from Itamar Ben-Gvir and other far-right ministers demanding to be let into this war cabinet. Rather than let them do that, Netanyahu has just disbanded it.

‘Intensity of Israeli bombardment’ on residential areas wiping out entire families in Gaza
We have reported earlier that an Associated Press investigation found at least 60 cases in which families in Gaza have lost at least 25 members to Israeli strikes and some of these attacks have wiped out “four generations from the same family”.

Ayed Abu Eqtaish, accountability programme director at Defence for Children International, told Al Jazeera from Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank that the killing of “entire families and different generations from the same family, it’s a fact”. This happens as a result of the “intensity of the bombardment towards residential areas” in Gaza, he said.

In the majority of incidents, there were no prior warnings from Israeli forces, Abu Eqtaish said, but in others, some families said they had received warnings but there was not enough time to evacuate the site that was targeted.

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